Slinky

Slinky

Tara Bowen/SXC.HU

Background: The little bedspring-that-could was invented by a naval engineer in the '40s. Famous for: Walking downstairs, alone or in pairs; making a "slinkety" sound; getting tangled up so severely that it had to eventually make its slinkety sound in the nearest trash can. Why it should never be a game: We can already imagine the pitch meeting: "Use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk attachment to 'walk' the Slinky through the game world." We can also imagine, very clearly, the impending apocalypse. BOOOOOOM.

Background: The little bedspring-that-could was invented by a naval engineer in the '40s. Famous for: Walking downstairs, alone or in pairs; making a "slinkety" sound; getting tangled up so severely that it had to eventually make its slinkety sound in the nearest trash can. Why it should never be a game: We can already imagine the pitch meeting: "Use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk attachment to 'walk' the Slinky through the game world." We can also imagine, very clearly, the impending apocalypse. BOOOOOOM. (Tara Bowen/SXC.HU)

Background: The little bedspring-that-could was invented by a naval engineer in the '40s. Famous for: Walking downstairs, alone or in pairs; making a "slinkety" sound; getting tangled up so severely that it had to eventually make its slinkety sound in the nearest trash can. Why it should never be a game: We can already imagine the pitch meeting: "Use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk attachment to 'walk' the Slinky through the game world." We can also imagine, very clearly, the impending apocalypse. BOOOOOOM.